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is not likely to exceed that amount during the next 50 years. The 

 Report will therefore be read with satisfaction by those interested in 

 London Water Supply ; it is signed by Lord Balfour of Burleigh 

 (chairman), Sir George Bruce, Sir Archibald Geikie, Professor James 

 Dewar, Mr. George H. Hill, Mr. James Mansergh, and Dr. W. Ogle. 



We learn from the Zanzibar Gazette and recent letters that in his 

 recent ascent of Mt. Kenia, Dr. J. W. Gregory was stopped at a point 

 2,000 feet below the summit by a cornice of snow, which could not 

 be surmounted except by a properly-equipped party of climbers. He 

 established a baggage camp at the foot of the mountain, a reserve 

 camp at 11,000 feet, and an upper camp close to the snow-line. The 

 greatest difficulty was experienced in passing through the zone of 

 bamboos, where advantage had to be taken of elephant paths. The 

 succeeding forests proved very dense, damp, and cold, and it was a 

 relief to emerge into the higher pastures. Dr. Gregory collected 

 plants and insects, examined some large glaciers and determined 

 their former much greater extension, and mapped the S.W T . side of 

 the mountain. 



We regret to hear that during his exploration of the now active 

 volcano, Adjuma-yama, near Fukushima, in Japan, a member of the 

 Japanese Geological Survey lost his life, and that of his assistant, 

 owing to a sudden explosion. Mr. S. Miura, the deceased geologist, 

 was formerly science master in the Normal School at Saga in 

 S. Japan, and had only recently joined the Survey. The mountain 

 can now be visited with safety, as the explosions occur at regular 

 intervals, morning and evening. 



One could scarcely accuse a writer so well-informed as Mr. Joseph 

 Hatton of carelessness but that under the heading " Cigarette 

 Papers " in the People of September 3 appeared an extraordinarily 

 absurd account of a gigantic squid. This is referred to as an " up- 

 to-date fish of the cephaloptera species," with " long scaly arms," or 

 as the writer puts it in another paragraph, " forty-foot antennae." The 

 remarks are made with regard to an account of the appearance of one 

 of these gigantic molluscs to some sailors in the Gulf of Mexico, and 

 whether or not the nonsense occurs in the American newspaper 

 account, a reference to any encyclopaedia would have enabled the 

 English writer to avoid repeating so strange a tissue of absurdities. 



The Anthropological Institute issued in August an " Index to 

 the Publications of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain 

 and Ireland (1843-1891), including the Journal and Transactions of 

 the Ethnological Society of London (1843-1891): the Journal and 

 Memoirs of the Anthropological Society of London (1863- 1871): and 



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